Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Regiment only when we were leaving Fresh Pond to return to Cambridge. He could see then, as I did myself, that the manual of arms was somewhat listless, that our band played, with an irregular rhythm, tunes of a rather funereal character, and that the marching lacked energy and snap. These criticisms do not surprise me at all: I expressed them many times after each exercise, and especially at the beginning of a recent lecture...
...want to make clear this point, that I completely agree with Col. Applin as far as this subject is concerned. I am very grateful to him for having backed up with his high authority the criticism I expressed so often. Our men must acquire more precision and more snap in all the close order exercises, in marching, and in all these details which give troops a good military appearance, and impress in a favorable way the civilian spectators...
...moral cohesion, which binds together all the members of the same unit, linking in an invisible chain men and officers, so that, in any formation, in any situation, however critical it may be, the soldier follows his leader and entirely submits to his will and inspiration. Precision and snap in close order must be improved in the regiment: we are going to work at it, harder and harder. But the discipline itself, the real and necessary discipline, men already have. ANDRE MORIZE...
Physical drill is now such an important part of military work that this will also be a welcome chance to increase our military knowledge. The officers at the June camps will be favorably impressed by a man who can do physical drill with snap and precision. There should be a goodly number present next week when "First group, First exercise" is commanded...
These faults can be changed, and they can be changed more easily by the undergraduate than through the professor. . . . . We must take a fresh hold, make a new start. We must give up snap courses, stop vaguely dreaming through lecture hours. We must aim at some definite goal--and reach it. We must work for a purpose. Cornell...